China Is Building Its Own Version Of Cern: Twice The Size And 7 Times More Powerful

2/15/2016

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China is planning on building a huge particle
accelerator twice the size and seven times as powerful as CERN’s Large Hadron
Collider. The main goal is to reveal a new physics beyond the Standard Model and
the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism along with the clues to understanding dark
matter and supersymmetry also. According to China Daily reports, this new particle
accelerator will be capable of generating millions of Higgs boson particles.

The Standard Model of physics, is an assembly of
theories physicists have derived — and repeatedly improved — to explain the cosmos
and how the smallest building blocks of our universe interact with one another.
Of course there are problems with the Standard Model remain to be solved. For
instance, gravity has not yet been effectively combined into the framework.

Chinese researchers have already finished an
initial conceptual design of a super-giant particle collider which will be larger
and more powerful than any particle accelerator on Earth.

Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High EnergyPhysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Daily in an exclusive
interview "We have completed the initial conceptual design and organized
international peer review recently, and the final conceptual design will be
completed by the end of 2016,"

The institute has been working with major
high-energy physics tasks in China, for instance the Beijing Electron Positron
Collider and the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment. Now researchers are recommending
a more ambitious new accelerator with seven times the energy level of the Large
Hadron Collider in Europe.

If everything goes as planned, the construction of
the first stage project CEPC will begin between 2020 and 2025, followed by the
second stage in 2040. Yes it’s a long road ahead but this can completely change
our understanding of quantum world.

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